Live data from Hacker News

Brex’s Prompt Engineering Guide

github.com

1–10 of 112 posts

Re: Brex’s Prompt Engineering Guide

#3

I wonder if linguistic and English majors would end up benefiting in this trend of "prompt engineering."

Perhaps, but this space suffers from the Armageddon astronaut/fire figher problem. It is easier to teach a Computer Science Major good english, than it is to teach an English Major computer science.

Re: Brex’s Prompt Engineering Guide

#4
post #3

I wonder if linguistic and English majors would end up benefiting in this trend of "prompt engineering."

Perhaps, but this space suffers from the Armageddon astronaut/fire figher problem. It is easier to teach a Computer Science Major good english, than it is to teach an English Major computer science.

I always thought this problem was better thought of as software engineer/farmer problem - it's easer to teach a software engineer about agriculture than the other way around

Re: Brex’s Prompt Engineering Guide

#5
The "Strategies" section looks valuable.

Here are a few more great resources from my notes (including one from Lilian Weng who leads Applied Research at OpenAI):

- https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2023-03-15-prompt-enginee...

- https://www.promptingguide.ai (check the "Techniques" section for several research-vetted approaches)

- https://learnprompting.org/docs/intro

Re: Brex’s Prompt Engineering Guide

#7

I wonder if linguistic and English majors would end up benefiting in this trend of "prompt engineering."

When Big Data was becoming the hot new thing, I saw people arguing that companies would inevitably need librarians and Masters in Library Science holders etc to wrangle all the information (I guess?)

Spoilers: this didn’t happen

Post reply on HN